How To Pulley Shingles Onto Roof

Make your own pulley system to get 72 bundles of roofing shingles up to roof top 1 2 story house the supplier i am buying from doesent deliver saving 400 even after i rent a truck to pick them up but my back is not what it used to be.

How to pulley shingles onto roof.

Roofing nails are for securing asphalt shingles in place as opposed to regular nails that aren t always strong enough. But i m now 71 and not up to manhandling shingles onto the roof. The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges.

All the ladder lifts i saw on youtube were too labor intensive and so i designed my own with stuff i had around the house. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm. One man stays in the truck loading shingles onto the belt while another is stationed on the roof offloading the supplies as they are carried up by the moving belt. Install another set of starter shingles at the sides of the roof ensure the two sets overlap.

Install the roof shingles. It took about 90 minutes to make. I placed a temporary pulley up on the roof top. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top.

I either have to find a supplier who ll put them on the roof or rent one of the above. I m ready to shingle another house. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. You ll also want a knife or scissors handy for adjusting the size of a shingle to fit in certain areas like the corner of a roof.

Finally the preparation is over you can now install the shingles. How to get shingles on your roof easily. Essentially this system is one where a conveyer belt on a rigid platform extends directly from a truck up to the roof.